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I might do better to read other responses before offering my own, and apologise for any repetition of ideas already offered. I have just two or three minutes to write. As follows..!

It makes perfectly reasonable, good sense to consider seriously “old” ideas. Old ‘wisdom’, so that I am puzzled by the question.  My first source of information, must always be *my own experience*, that is, what do I already ‘know’, or have confidence in, that may help me draw conclusions concerning existing puzzles, paths to be taken, decisions to be made?

Among my acquired information is almost certainly, and every time I need to access more, all of those positive experiences that are relative to new circumstances.  That pool of information that I reference every time,  includes some of the oldest, most ancient, scraps of knowledge, memory,  and shared experiences, that I imagine may well be as old as human species, itself. It survives so long for no more surprising reason, than that it is *tried and tested* over maybe millions of years, by millions of others of this same species.  Does that mean that I can rely on that source of information alone? Of course not! One of those most precious bits of ancient wisdom advises very strongly against such a path!